Essays about: "uses of the word it"

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1. 1. From Word To Action. : A Study on Accountability and Gender- Sensitivity in UNICEF & PlanInternational WASH Programs

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Olivia Aspinge Gilbert; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This paper investigates UNICEF and Plan International's internal consistency regarding what extent they are implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects with gender sensitivity. UNICEF and Plan International are under scrutiny due to their influence in humanitarianism and their stated dedication to eradicating gender disparities within WASH; are they accountable towards their objectives? This topic is of great importance due to the role water, sanitation and hygiene play in girls' development, safety, health, and equality. READ MORE

3. 2. Employee representation on the board of directors and its implications on corporate risk- A quantitative study on diverging stakeholder preferences

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Filip Engelholm; Lukas Nyström; [2022-06-30]
   Keywords : Board level employee representation; Codetermination; Risk preferences; Stakeholder incentives; Agency conflict; Corporate governance;

   Abstract : This study investigates how board-level employee representation (BLER) impacts the risk profile of a firm. More specifically, it investigates whether the binary presence of employees in the board room, or the relative ratio of votes allocated to employees, leads to reduced total, idiosyncratic, or systematic risk. READ MORE

4. 3. Political Parties on the Move: Computational Scaling Method Applied to Swedish Parliamentary Debates

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Carl-Oscar Källström Ståhlgren; [2022]
   Keywords : Estimation methods; political space; parliamentary speeches; political speech; text analysis; Swedish politics; algorithm; models; word frequency analysis; time series; left-right; Wordfish;

   Abstract : Over the years, a variety of methods have been used in order toestimate policy positions for political parties in national parliaments. This papersets out to apply a novel computational method called Wordfish and apply it to aheavily under-researched form of political text, parliamentary speeches. READ MORE

5. 4. Tectonics & disassembly

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Augusta Blohm; [2022]
   Keywords : Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : The construction of a building does not always work the way it appears to work. Within a theoretical framework rooted in writings by Eduard Sekler, Karl Bötticher and Martin Heidegger, this thesis presents a discussion on the importance of the tectonic expression when designing a building with the intent that it should be easy to disassemble. READ MORE

6. 5. A Swedish wav2vec versus Google speech-to-text

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

   Author : Ester Lagerlöf; [2022]
   Keywords : ASR; automatic speech recognition; speech-to-text; wav2vec; Google speech-to-text; model comparison;

   Abstract : As the automatic speech recognition technology is becoming more advanced, the possibilities of in which fields it can operate are growing. The best automatic speech recognition technologies today are mainly based on - and made for - the English language. READ MORE